[GALILEI Galileo] NELLI, Giovanni Battista Clemente de’. Vita e Commercio Letterario di Galileo Galilei.Losanna [ma Firenze], 1793•
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2 vols. 4to, mm. 260x185; Shagreen binding of the XIXth century, guiled titles on the spine; Frontispiece with portrait, pp. XVI, 471 [i.e. 467, omitted into the numbering pp. 425-428], 1 folded table out text with family tree, 2 copper plates out text; Frontispiece with portrait, pp. [5], 472-961, 1 bl., 7 copper plates out text. Portrait of Galileo at the age of 40 in the Ist vol., Portrait of Galileo at the age of 70 in the IInd vol. •A total of 11 copper plates by Giuseppe Calendi, of which 4 folded; the two portraits are engraved on the drawings of Morghen.
RARE ORIGINAL EDITION ILLUSTRATED. Important work, the first to have gathered in one body and documented the biographical information on Galileo, and the first dedicated to him appeared in Tuscany [even under a false place of publication], being still ongoing at the time the ecclesiastical condemnation. both the biographies of Galileo are very detailed , with all the history of his family from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, is the reconstruction of his scientific work in the relationships with contemporaries; That last part is also interesting for the Galilean bibliography.
Moreni: “L'immortal Galileo ha finalmente trovato nel Sen. Nelli un diffuso encomiaste, il quale assai più degli altri ha dato premio di giusta laude al più inclito, ed elevato Spirito, che abbiano avuto le Scienze negli ultimi Secoli... Prevenuto l’Autore dalla morte, non poté veder ultimato se non il Tomo I.” Esemplare con tutte le 11 tavole posizionate nelle pagine indicate dall’autore alla fine della Prefazione.
Moreni, II, pp. 115-16; Carli-Favaro 618; Cinti 182; Riccardi I, col. 526, n. 25 e II, 195; Zeitlinger 8238.
Slight sign of foxing and spotting, sign of dampstain on the margin of the second vol., good copy with wide margins. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
RARE ORIGINAL EDITION ILLUSTRATED. Important work, the first to have gathered in one body and documented the biographical information on Galileo, and the first dedicated to him appeared in Tuscany [even under a false place of publication], being still ongoing at the time the ecclesiastical condemnation. both the biographies of Galileo are very detailed , with all the history of his family from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, is the reconstruction of his scientific work in the relationships with contemporaries; That last part is also interesting for the Galilean bibliography.
Moreni: “L'immortal Galileo ha finalmente trovato nel Sen. Nelli un diffuso encomiaste, il quale assai più degli altri ha dato premio di giusta laude al più inclito, ed elevato Spirito, che abbiano avuto le Scienze negli ultimi Secoli... Prevenuto l’Autore dalla morte, non poté veder ultimato se non il Tomo I.” Esemplare con tutte le 11 tavole posizionate nelle pagine indicate dall’autore alla fine della Prefazione.
Moreni, II, pp. 115-16; Carli-Favaro 618; Cinti 182; Riccardi I, col. 526, n. 25 e II, 195; Zeitlinger 8238.
Slight sign of foxing and spotting, sign of dampstain on the margin of the second vol., good copy with wide margins. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
